Random Question: Can you 'Touch type' or do you 'hunt and peck'

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

For some reason my Mom made me take typing classes with and old 30 pound manual typewriter when I was in 5th grade. Had to lug to and from school on Wednesdays. It was the 80s and one way to get software was to buy the magazine "Compute" which printed pages of BASIC or hexdex machine code that you could type in and get a program- usually that only worked after they printed the corrections two months later. So I wasn't against it that much. You want to learn typing, copying pages of hex code will do it.

My wife never learned, though I know a lot of people had to take typing in HS, just like they took Spanish, I'm not sure that either took. My high-school and middle school kids didn't have to take typing, or learn cursive (or times tables or really spelling, but I digress)- I guess it is too hard to break them of hunt and peck.

Though, with my wife having never of learned, my kids have always said- "I want to type like Dad, he's actually fast."

I'm not that good at transcribing since I mostly type for emails and posts, and I have no idea how fast I am. But how many people learned how to type and how many do an advanced hunt and peck?

Apple's IOS/MAC speech to text is just good enough to be tempting to use, it jacks up so much stuff that has to be fixed, it isn't nearly as fast as typing.

[LowSpeed_HighDrag]

Hunt and peck, and I do fairly well for what it is. Took a typing class in High School, never did well trying to ASDF HJKL type.

[chadbag]

I have my own style -- my family laughs at me but I am very quick. I basically use my thumbs and the first two finger on each hand in a modified "hunt and peck" scheme.

I remember my first real job, for Digital Equipment Corp. The supervisor was a good touch typist. The next level boss up was a one finger, very slow hunt and peck typist. We were in the higher level boss's cubicle and the touch typist supervisor told the boss to move and sat down in his seat to type everything we were testing / working on. He could not stand to watch the higher boss slowly hunt and peck each letter. It was pretty funny. (Luckily the two had a good history so the upper level boss was not offended).

[Diamondback]

I use a hybrid of the two, more touch-type in the mix normally but shifting toward hunt-peck when on a bad keyboard.

[Grand58742]

I have my own style -- my family laughs at me but I am very quick. I basically use my thumbs and the first two finger on each hand in a modified "hunt and peck" scheme.

I remember my first real job, for Digital Equipment Corp. The supervisor was a good touch typist. The next level boss up was a one finger, very slow hunt and peck typist. We were in the higher level boss's cubicle and the touch typist supervisor told the boss to move and sat down in his seat to type everything we were testing / working on. He could not stand to watch the higher boss slowly hunt and peck each letter. It was pretty funny. (Luckily the two had a good history so the upper level boss was not offended).

This, but with three fingers on each hand and slamming the space bar with my thumbs most of the time.

It's helps that I'm an amateur writer and have had to learn to do such a thing.

[Pi3]

In the 60's, only girls took typing. At age 40 I had to learn to work on a PC. Bought and old typing text book and spent weekends doing the drills. Still not that fast and couldnt get by without spell check.

[MegademiC]

I type properly.

[sl4mdaddy]

.....I basically use my thumbs and the first two finger on each hand in a modified "hunt and peck" scheme.....

Same here.

[Straight Shooter]

My gf says Im a "fast pecker".

[Grand58742]

My gf says Im a "fast pecker".

Two fingers worth?